Established in 1883 and considered the trade’s leading business in Austria ever since, we have been dealing in rare books, manuscripts and autographs for more than a century, serving private collectors and institutional customers all over the world.

What’s new: recent acquisitions

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $135,995.00
  • [Jainism - Indian miniature]. [Jain cosmographical diagram].Gujarat or Rajasthan, late 19th/ early 20th century.

    $816.00
  • [Lawrence, T. E., British explorer, intelligence officer, and writer (1888-1935)]. [Four stamps designed by T. E. Lawrence for the Arab Revolt, with a signed …No place, 1916 CE = 1334 H.

    $16,319.00
  • Laurent, Jean (photographer). Photograph album of Spain.Madrid, 1870s.

    $38,079.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

    $13,600.00
  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,896.00
  • Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). Collection of three engraved cores: Op. 1 (Erlkönig), 2 (Gretchen am Spinnrade), …Vienna, 1821-1827.

    $8,160.00
  • [Hinduism]. Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.India, early 19th century.

    $10,336.00